Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday, at approximately 12:32 p. m., Herbert Clark Hoover will find himself on a stand on the Capitol's east steps, a world-wide radio audience invisible in the microphone before him, a printed speech in his hand.* The reading of that speech will be his first official act as 31st President...
President Roosevelt went to the White House with six children, to find only five available bedrooms. Congress gave him $475,455 to renovate, to remove the President's office to a separate wing (1902). He also installed an elevator, an electric plate-warmer, dumb waiters, telephones, typewriters...
...does not leave by the door opposite where he came in. If he did, he would find himself in the President's telephone ("Main 6") and cloakroom or, beyond that, in the Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...
...Warburg '30 and John Walker III '30 leave today for New York to assemble pictures for the coming exhibit. Among the painters whose works will undoubtedly be represented in their selection are Laurencin, Chirico, Dufy, and Miro. Sculptors such as Despiau and Maillol will also find themselves among those whose works are to be chosen. The absence from the exhibition of paintings by Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Bracque is explained by the fact that their work will be included in the display of the Fogg Museum, inasmuch as these artists fall on the border line between the nineteenth and twentieth...
...duties as representative of the fourteenth district in Congress, and various sojourns abroad have kept him away from Cambridge during recent football seasons. He has not yet been approached by the Harvard authorities, but it was learned from Mr. Bingham that the University would welcome his services should he find himself able to give them...